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| Born | Colorado, U.S. |
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| Notable works | The Shards of Heaven |
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Michael Livingston is an American historian, a professor of medieval literature, and a historical fantasy novelist. His 2015 debut novel, The Shards of Heaven , has been followed by two sequels.
Originally from Colorado, [1] Livingston has a B.A. in history from Baylor University, an M.A. in medieval studies from Western Michigan University, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. [2] He has been a professor at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, since 2006. [1] [2] [3]
Michael Livingston is the co-star on the Discovery Channel TV show Contact , in which he skeptically examines potential evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life and its impact on Earth. [4] [5] [6]
Livingston has published multiple academic works. [1] [3] He has written numerous articles on the world of J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf , Chaucer, James Joyce and Robert Jordan. [7]
Livingston said in 2015, "one of the key bits of advice I ever received as a young novelist-to-be was to try to cut my teeth on writing short stories ... starting with short stories was vital to the development of my career". [8] Livingston's debut novel, The Shards of Heaven, was published by Tor Books in November 2015. [1] [3] [9] [10] Two sequels have subsequently been published. [1]
Livingston's 2011 collection Angels Among Other Things, self-published via e-book, consisted of nine short stories, including "The Keeper Alone" and "At the End of Babel". [16]
Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century copy of Bede's text, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English. Adherence to the grammatical rules of Old English is largely inconsistent in 12th-century work, and by the 13th century the grammar and syntax of Old English had almost completely deteriorated, giving way to the much larger Middle English corpus of literature.
The Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937 between Æthelstan, King of England, and an alliance of Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin; Constantine II, King of Scotland; and Owain, King of Strathclyde. The battle is sometimes cited as the point of origin for English national identity: historians such as Michael Livingston argue that "the men who fought and died on that field forged a political map of the future that remains, arguably making the Battle of Brunanburh one of the most significant battles in the long history not just of England, but of the whole of the British Isles."
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